Iranian officials withheld from international atomic energy inspectors the original design documents for a secret nuclear reactor suspected of being part of Tehran’s plan to build an atomic bomb, a US embassy cable reveals.

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said that the best age for girls to marry is between 16 and 18, rather than at the younger ages allowed by law.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Iran on Friday has killed three people and wounded another 21, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar told the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran...

Iran’s supreme leader predicted the destruction of Israel in comments posted on his Web site on Wednesday, in some of his strongest remarks in years about the Jewish state. In the past, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called Israel a “cancerous...

Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a published interview. The West suspects Iran wants to develop a nuclear weapons...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the prosecution of Iran’s top opposition leaders Friday, backing hard-liners pushing for escalation of the postelection crackdown. Ahmadinejad’s speech reflected the increasing bitterness of what has...

Nope. It’s just more deafening silence from the Muslim Street in the wake of last week’s ethnic riot that killed more than 184 in China’s restive Xinjiang Province, home to the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group. According to the Chinese...

The strongest challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attracted an unusually large and exuberant crowd of supporters on Monday during a campaign speech in this northwest city near the candidate’s birthplace, with only a few weeks before national...

US Vice President Cheney complained to Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan about Turkey’s close relations with Iran and Syria and said “the US does not understand this”. Prime Minister Erdoğan said it would be impossible to deliver the...

How do Totalitarian regimes hold elections? Declare that opposition candidates are insufficiently loyal to be placed on the ballot. Iran on Friday voted in elections expected to tighten the grip of conservatives on parliament after a low-key...